The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke… — Frank Yerby Copy Share Image
“The moral test of government is how it treats people in the dawn of life, the children, in the twilight of life,… — Hubert Humphrey Copy Share Image
Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who prefer loneliness to the… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the… — Peter Hans Kolvenbach Copy Share Image
“He then proceeded to shout at Alpha and Beta, a sign that he was in a genuine good mood. They took it… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake,… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of… — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony… — William James Copy Share Image
The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a moral issue or any kind of… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Bahaism gives you a pluralistic view, and a lot of aspects of Hinduism give you a moral framework with no accountability other… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand… — Joseph Crowley Copy Share Image
“We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When you share your moral common sense with people in your locality, that helps you to form a community. But those gut… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country… — Lois Capps Copy Share Image
The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it's not a political issue, it's a… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
In 'Reclaiming Virtue,' I argue that we have had an element missing in moral education. That element is 'affect.' Affect is simply… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
